In addition to the limited edition prints, Doug will have several Playboy originals for sale as well as copies of his 52-page book Unpublished Sneyd, featuring his favorite gag rough rejects submitted to Playboy since his first full-page color cartoon was published in September 1964.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

In addition to purchasing original Playboy finishes and limited edition prints, fans attending Comic-Con July 22-26 can also get personalized copies of Unpublished Sneyd - featuring 100 of Doug's favorite gag rough rejects submitted to Playboy during his 45 years as a full-page color cartoonist.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Doug and I had a wonderful evening with long-time friend and political cartoon colleague Roy Peterson, who spent 47 years as a political cartoonist with the Vancouver Sun.

We had dinner at the Salmon House on the Hill in West Vancouver. It opened in 1976 and is described as "perched like an eagle overlooking downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park." The view was spectacular and the alder-grilled salmon "delicious."

Roy (left) was the founding president of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists and is also an officer of the Order of Canada.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Doug and I had a great day on Granville Island - home to eateries, food and flower stalls at the Public Market, live theater and art galleries. It was a highlight of our 5-day stay in Vancouver along with the Vancouver Art Gallery and Stanley Park.

The deck outside the Public Market gives visitors a spectacular view of downtown Vancouver.

Decorated cement trucks, like this one we saw on our visit to Granville Island, are a reminder that Vancouver's "hip" area was once an industrial zone - rehabbed in the 1970s to now attract tourists with food and flower stalls, ethnic restaurants, art galleries and boutique shops.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Touring Craigdarroch Castle - built between 1887-1890 for Robert Dunsmuir, a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune from Vancouver Island coal - was a wonderful way to end our visit to Victoria. Designated a National Historic Site and attracting nearly 140,000 visitors per year, the Castle showcases four floors of exquisite stained glass, intricate woodwork and lavish Victorian-era furnishings.

The Fairmont name is associated with famous historic hotels built to accommodate people traveling across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Edwardian, chateau-styled Empress in Victoria, overlooking the Inner Harbour, opened in 1908; on our last evening in Victoria, Doug and I enjoyed the curry buffet in The Bengal Restaurant.

The Bengal Lounge and Restaurant- decorated in Victorian-era, Colonial Indian style - opened in 1954 at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Today it features live jazz on the weekends as well as a nightly curry buffet.

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.